Interactive media authoring without access to orignal source material
AssigneeSonic Solutions
InventorKenneth G. Oetzel
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Abstract
The present invention relates to improvements in the generation of an authoring file, readable by an authoring program of a DVD-Video or other interaction video media, that defines the playback structure of the content residing in a given disc's “authored content zone” and also defines the location of the assets that make up the disc's “presentation data.” The improvements allow generation of an authoring file that references assets that are within the authored content zone of the medium. This allows the authoring “project” from which the final DVD-Video disc image was created to be reopened in a compatible authoring program—and to be modified by such a program—without reference to any of the original source materials.
Claims53
A method of forming interactive media content compatible with a media protocol, comprising:
- providing asset content;
- formatting a first portion of the asset content to be viewable on a player compatible with the media protocol;
- identifying a second portion of the asset content;
- forming authoring index data referencing the formatted first portion of the asset contents and the second portion of the asset contents;
- and
- forming a media image including the formatted first portion of the asset contents and the second portion of the asset contents in discreet form, wherein the media image is editable when opened on a workstation accessing the authoring index data.
An electronic data file, on a storage medium, that when transferred into an appropriately configured digital apparatus causes the apparatus to operate in accordance with a process for forming interactive media content compatible with a media protocol, the process comprising:
- receiving asset content;
- formatting a first portion of the asset content to be viewable on a player compatible with the media protocol;
- identifying a second portion of the asset content;
- forming authoring index data referencing the formatted first portion of the asset contents and the second portion of the asset contents;
- and
- forming a media image including the formatted first portion of the asset contents and the second portion of the asset contents in discreet form, wherein the media image is editable when opened on a workstation accessing the authoring index data.
An interactive medium having content comprising:
- a first set of data, comprising logical data and presentation data including a first set of assets of a media project, wherein the presentation data is presentable by a player designed for the medium;
- and
- a second set of data, comprising a second set of assets of the media project, wherein the second of assets can be used in editing the presentation data of said project using authoring index data referencing the first and second set of assets in a workstation having an authoring program compatible with the authoring file.
35 A method, comprising:
- performing an initial authoring process on an interactive media project using initial authoring index data on a first workstation having access to a set of asset resources;
- subsequently forming a media image derived from the project and the initial authoring index data;
- writing the media image on a storage medium, wherein a version of the project is viewable on a player designed for said medium;
- transferring the interactive medium to a second workstation having an authoring program compatible with the initial authoring index data;
- opening the interactive medium on the second workstation;
- and
- performing a further authoring process on the project in the second workstation whereby the viewable version of the product is altered, wherein the second workstation can not access the asset resources of the first workstation.
The method of claim 35, wherein the medium is an optical disc format.
The method of claim 35, wherein said performing an initial authoring process comprises:
- providing the initial authoring index data having asset content of the media project readable by the authoring program;
- formatting a first portion of the assets according to a protocol to be viewable on the media player compatible with the media protocol;
- and
- deriving from the initial authoring index data new authoring index data referencing assets from the formatted first portion of the assets and from a second portion of the assets, wherein the media image includes the formatted first portion of the assets and the second portion of the assets.
A method of editing an interactive media project, comprising:
- providing a medium containing a copy of the media project comprising:
- an authored content zone containing presentation data;
- and
- an other data zone containing uncomposited assets;
- opening the media project in a workstation, comprising:
- locating assets in the authored content zone;
- and
- retrieving uncomposited assets from the other data zone;
- accessing authoring index data referencing said assets in the authored content zone and said uncomposited assets from the other data zone;
- and
- editing the project, comprising modifying the presentation data using said authoring index data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.